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There's somethin' down there''|[[The Ramones]], "I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement"}}

 

** ''The People Under The Stairs'' is a bit of a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]] in that the basement is actually the safest part of that house for the kid to be in.

* The original creepy basement in ''[[The Night of the Hunter]]''.

* Toward the end of ''[[Psycho]]'', Norman Bates keeps his mother's corpse in the fruit cellar.

* The cabin basement in ''[[The Evil Dead]]''. That's where they find the [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]] in the first place, that's where they lock up Cheryl when she gets demonically possessed, and that's where Ash gets covered in more blood than you'd believe.

** In the sequel, we also learn that the possessed corpse of Annie's mother is buried down there, and, in a homage to the above ''[[Psycho]]'', she refers to it as her "fruit cellar".

* Another obvious example: ''[[Silence of the Lambs]]'':

* Not really a basement, but in the second half of the movie ''[[Titanic]]'' the ship strikes an ice berg and the lower levels immediately start to fill with water, making it dangerous for anyone to be in those areas of the ship because they can either drown or freeze to death. It gets even creepier once the lights inside the ship start to flicker on and off and then finally turn off permanently.

* The wine cellar of the ''[[House on Haunted Hill]]''. To say much more would ruin the surprise.

** There's also the bizarre "I Live In Your Basement", which - just read the summary [http://www.bloggerbeware.com/2006/05/61-i-live-in-your-basement.html here].

* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'', we meet Catseye, an outlaw-for-hire famed for his night vision and comfort in the darkness... with the exception of one cellar from his childhood.

"Yeah?" said Catseye, from somewhere far off. "Well, ''our'' dad used to wallop us if we tried to get out." }}

** When the Tooth Fairy's Castle (long story) activates its defenses and sics his worst fears after him, he is swallowed by impossibly-deep shadows, leaving nothing behind but his boots and air that "tasted of rats, and damp, and mold."

* Montressor seals an enemy into the wall of his wine cellar in Edgar Alan Poe's ''The Cask Of Amontillado''.

"Yes, Fortunato... for the love of God..." }}

* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[IT]]'', little Georgie Denbrough hates going down to the cellar. He should have been more worried about the drains ...

* A [[Running Gag]] has Jackson in [[Hannah Montana]] not want to clean the basement as a punishment as "there are [[Spiders Are Scary|spiders]] down there".

* One shows up as Jeff, Troy, and Abed make their way out when escaping from the zombies in ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S2 E06 Epidemiology|Epidemiology]]".

 

== Video Games ==

* One of these is the setting of the "Borrowers" story arc of ''[[Skin Horse]]''.

* From [http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-07-16 this strip] of ''[[Daisy Owl]]'':

'''Daisy:''' Well, right now, ''the whole world is the basement''. Except that if you freak, ''there's no staircase to scramble up''. }}

 

* ''[[Rugrats]]:'' A few episodes had the babies traveling down to a basement, and usually they would exaggerate what was actually going on in reality to make it more creepy, in the babies eyes at least. Understandable really considering how often Stu would work on his crazy inventions down there...

** One episode in which Susie's sister Alisa babysat Tommy and Susie, everyone thought that there was some monster down the basement, and they put a table in front of the door to keep it down there. Unfortunately, the monster had gotten out and was running around the house. It was really just Susie's older brother and his friend playing a prank on everyone.

* The song "Don't Go In the Basement" from the animated short ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOptGLEOsJ8 Face Like a Frog].'' A [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] in a cartoon that's nothing but.

* ''[[Muppet Babies]]'' had the babies braving the horrors of the basement -- magnified by their super imagination -- several times, usually when searching for Animal.

'''Kermit:''' ''gulp'' Um, Fozzie, [[You Just Had to Say It|did you have to say that]]? }}